The Dillon tribune., 1887-05-27
THE MIND CURE

THE MIND CURE
,s ASSERTED sY TIE Apos'
wHr' E,rsof Of THIS OPTIMISTIC CREED
,., Held in High E~tc-m 1T
~. .,.,e,. A,"-ns-''"' "'" Matter.
x.r,ou."e.~ and ''s"'r'''-' '''''''"'
s,.,,-Sen,i-I"ya''''s'
.s,..sn.,re. the Universal. seems to
80 formulated the tneols ~ 'uu LIE. ~"
nSss 1lS"ol Of healing when ne n;,Ncs I1an''ec
scn sc thot ..therc is nothing c''nsr gUH! oa
~ ~ Int hnt thinking makes lt So. rern"i's
~ ~. snouM not speak OF .ha' sys'c'n us
VIC w.s,,r:, s that would appear to have been
- S;ch esteem ut ancient At'it'ls, ana tnat
y Am Am extraordinary vogue III the east at
-. ~. ,nainuing @ of our era. At first thought
.se e nrescnt interest and excitement III tnc
'.'Siect sS seem unreal ana annchronistic.
n.,t after all, is 1t not natural ana htt1ng
1s.t D.,' the mind should be most easily and
.tsorbincly occupied by matters pertain
mo to the mind ITSELF:
w r., accept the doctrine of the mind cure,
-. re understand it. IS to believe that
s..ith. sanity and virtue arc the normal
.ttribntrs, the birthright possession, Of
nan Disease, tlen,entia, sin, arc negative
.cndit;ons which it is weak. dishonorable
o"S s;nful TO harbor. s'Refuse to believe
- illnyss deny psir, resist weakness y
~, :. the APOSTLES Of this optimistic creed,
":,d illness. pain aud weakness vanish,
,,snnse they exist only in your thought
= theIn. Suffering is simply that state Of
mind that makes you imagine that you
infer. You have only t" get above slf-
fering.''
hariJ, needs assertion. The old ill,lstra-
t;ons Of the moral philosophies alone orc
Drocf enough. The miner dying Of fright
On finding his sustaining rope too short,
in the pitch dark mine, with his feet in
reality six inches from the ground; tho
blindfol,lctl man fainting in the belief
that he WAS bleeding to death, when only
warnl water was trickling down his av1n;
the workman undergoing the horrible
manifestations I cholera lcca,l&;r he was
told falsely that II cholera vicrim llrd just
died IN the same letl--shOW the effect of
belief. The madness OF the insane. which,
is but y perverted and exaggerated will
mower. gives them the strength Of y dozen
sane men Aud quite lately the sh,xk OF
the earthquake i1s the Riviera ro,ised a
telridtlcn woman to rush down four
flights of stairs 10 the safety nf the street.
WHAT THE LANCEr SAYS
Eyc,! The London Lancet, which is
nothing II rot conservative. asserts that
in some cases mind has such an effect
upon M organic disease rs to cause new
and healthy formations. This, it will be
seen, goes far beyond the old admission
chat NERVOUSNESS and ''hvstcrin" were
subject to mental influences. There is no
doubt that the tendency Of the ,uc,:ical
profession has been decidedly T. -.terial.
istic, and that any leaning toward spirit
ual methods. as shown in magnetism, "
''hypnotisn, ''clairyoyancc' and their
like, has been made at once ,lisrcputablc,
70 that any germ at trnth they may have
possessed was slnO;hercd out of sight.
Yet the little we know Of the potency OF
the mind over the holy shows MS that
there must be an illimitablc field for its
actton, 1t VIC could but find out how to set
itat work. And it would seem that our
help must come chiefly from within. not
from without. '''Tis IN ourselves that
We arc thus OF thus
Narpcars TO us u hopeful sixll Uf 1,
more wholesome life that large. classes OF
women take time and spend money to
hear this theory Of the reality OF spiritual
existence cxpoundn1. After tho poet,
they are discovering that "soul is form,
and doth the body make They arc
n N1anN1 Imx
have allowed their thoughts to dwell
upon their p;lins and limitations until
these have come largely to flll their men.
tai horizon. Their talk is of Sickness.
Even yonng girls, among the we'll to tlc
and Idle classes. compare symptoms and
suggest diagnoses as staple topics 0f con
vcrsation. Nothing could le worse, II
seems IL us. on the score Of GOosl taste ol
Of good health. As dwelling upon onc's
Fiefs nagniies them, no dwelling upor
one's pains rnagnifics them. II the mind
cure can h made to work ulDn thess
subjects It must restora 10 activity ener
gies worse than wasted; it would say,
time aud money; it would make n ora,
world into n joyous one; it would multi
ply past calculation the sum Of hnmal
hapIanesk.-llarpes's Baxar.
:. -:
) Wide aud 4uxSestive btsiA.
Nine. Janauschek's success is unQues
uohab!c, for she is Meg Merilles even !,
Me respect Of hardly having even 10 maxi
up Tor the part, and because (. warp 0
imagination: a susceptibility to slpersti
lion aud q collective fecblcness of ages
powers drs gist from nature or contri
bution by time Ut precisely the lnalitie
which art would have to supply to other
hliinS the role. know OF no other in
stance than this one in which the weigh
NJ mental and bodily failure which pre-
Scribes retirement from the stage ha
been organized into q feat which insures
InffNito oo,,tin,,a.>ao ...>e.,